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Analysing culture in language learning materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2022

Karen Risager
Karen Risager*
Affiliation:
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Email: risager@ruc.dk
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This introduction contains three parts: First, a presentation of the timeline, including the selection of target languages. Second, an overview of trends of development in the international research field from the 1960s up until today. Third, a list of categories used in the subsequent table of annotated works.

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Language Teaching , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , January 2023 , pp. 1 - 21
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